Category Archives: Drawing challenges

Day 10: What I wrote about this at the time: This drawing of Benedicte, based on her Facebook profile photo, didn’t look a bit like her until it did. Then I worked on it some more, and now I’m not so sure. For a picture as simple as this, I struggled. But I say that […]

Day 9: What I wrote about this at the time: I think I may have bitten off more than I could chew with this rather complex image of Öznur and her cat lying on a sofa. Drawing the cat was a fun diversion from the nearly-daily portrait grind though. His/her asymmetrical facial markings are a […]

Day 8: What I wrote about this at the time: We have now exceeded last year’s number of entries! Photographer, web programmer and blogger Branko has an interesting face. It turned out to be difficult to draw and I may have overdone the haunted look in his eyes a little (actually, it’s the same expression […]

Day 7: What I wrote about this at the time: Tried a slightly looser, rougher, less constructed approach with this drawing of Liz who I know from the ComicGenesis meetups back in the day. I don’t know if the change in approach made that much of a difference to the finished result though. I had […]

The response from my friends on Facebook to my call for reference was amazing and motivated me a lot that year. That doesn’t mean I didn’t still struggle from time to time, as the comments to this one indicate. Day 6: What I wrote about this at the time: Based on an email submission from […]

Skipping Day 4 for personal reasons. Day 5: What I wrote about this at the time: I tried a slightly different approach in this drawing of my friend Dylan, who is a writer? ( I do hope he doesn’t use this for his author portrait, or the rather unflattering selfie this is based on; he […]

First of a series of portraits of friends, family and colleagues. This one’s pretty rough but this part of the series is where all the progress took place. Day 3: What I wrote about this at the time: My friend Kasia B, drawn January 5, from a selfie shared privately on Facebook. …I think this […]

Day 2: What I wrote about this at the time: Portrait of comedian W. Kamau Bell, based on a publicity photo by John Novak on mr. Bell’s website. I don’t know that much about Mr. Bell. He’s a socio-political comedian and dad, and a relative of writer N.K. Jemisin, who I follow on Facebook. Every […]

And after 20-odd drawings focused on boobs, we’re back to faces for a bit. I’m sure you’ll find it a welcome change even if the first face you get to look at is affable Brexiteer and drummer Ringo Starr. I started this Portrait January off with some celebrities, then put out a call on Facebook […]

This went up on DeviantArt on January 1, 2017. Now that I no longer drink as much on New Years’ Eve, I am usually functional enough on New Year’s Day to draw. What I wrote about this at the time: I know I said I was done with Decemboobs and ready to move on to […]